Editing Graviton Torpedo

[[File:Torpedo.jpg|thumb|198px|right|More bang for your buck.]]
An expensive specialized warhead for [[Lance Torpedo]]es that uses a fusion explosion to power a reaction similar to that in a tractor beam emitter, and produce a very powerful asymmetric gravity field for a brief instant. For that instant, any ship within the area of the effect will experience a rapidly changing asymmetric gravity field and will be torn apart by its own weight.  A development of the same principle behind [[Graviton Cannon]]s.

In the Battle of [[St. Michael's Star]] during the [[Ascension War]], the [[Imperial Navy]] used graviton torpedoes as an effective area weapon against an enemy [[Earth Fleet]] starfighter screen, creating huge gaps in the formation that the Imperial fighers immediately (albeit unsucessfully) tried to exploit.

==Behind the Scenes==

This is a concept we borrowed from one Martin came up with for a Star Trek fanfic he never got around to writing back in High School. In turn, he was inspired by the "Gravitic Mines" seen in the Star Trek tie-in novel [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kobayashi_Maru_%281989_novel%29 "The Kobayashi Maru" by Julia Ecklar].
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